Weekend Fun: “Amateur” By Lasse Gjertsen

Posted on Jan 21, 2007

“Amateur” by Lasse Gjertsen has caused quite the sensation on YouTube. The music video is dubbed “Amateur” because Lasse cannot play a single musicial instrument. Instead, he video tapes himself creating single hits on a drum kit and a piano, and then edits them together to first create a beat, and then a simple song. It’s pretty much what a sample-based musician does by cutting up bits of audio and then...